• BeigeAgenda@lemmy.ca
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    1 year ago

    Most likely not, I expect it’s the same as what you can do in English, put the stress on different places in a sentence to give different meaning.

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      1 year ago

      They all actually sound quite the same. Some syllables can be stressed to highlight parts of the sentences. YOUR moon vs your MOON

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        1 year ago

        Finnish people gets this imprinted from birth, other people thinks “How can this work? 🤨”

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          I had some Scandinavian colleagues joke with me about how their languages have these melodic intonations and we speak everything in monotone and they can’t wrap their heads around it.